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America’s #1 Professional Bigot Pat Buchanan Officially Out At MSNBC

Crusted-over boil Pat Buchanan will no longer be fomenting all-out race war at MSNBC, he is sad to announce. In his latest syndicated column (HOW MANY MEDIA DID THIS PIECE OF OFFAL NEED?) which is, of course, hilariously titled “The New Blacklist,” Buchanan revealed he is finally leaving the network after ten productive and bigotry-filled years. Let’s celebrate Pat’s legacy of barely concealed racial animus after the jump!

Well, we are not linking to Buchanan’s prickly “Goodbye, Cruel Multiracial World” announcement, where he predictably rails against the liberals and the gays and the blacks and the black liberal gay atheist blacklisters who, of late, have made being an awful racist-slash-homophobe so unpleasant for him. Let’s just quickly highlight the wisdom of Hero Commenter “derek,” and his response to Buchanan:

i don’t think anyone is restricting your speech or editing what you say.

i think we live in free markets. and the free market decided your thoughts and disapproval of the lives of hard-working gay Americans is not profitable.

Hooray for free-markets!

Hooray indeed, “derek”! And now here is Pat Buchanan being hit in the face with a pie.

As an old white guy, who aspires to wealth, I concur. After all, if it wasn't for them dumb Irishmen, we Finns would be world renown drunks and I could get work ranting at Occupy Washington protestors.

Terry

The other thing holding back Finns is the fact that the word (with one N) also means the appendage of a fish. That makes the rest of us snicker involuntarily.

Curmudgeon is too nice a word for that guy. Andy Rooney was a curmudgeon. Bigot is OK, though.

Isyaignert

Make that the 1850s.

ThundercatHo

That's not really salad dressing. Mr. T's red-headed stepchild has been saving up for awhile.

Tundra Grifter

It's just before 7:00 am here on the Left Coast.

I predict Buchanan will be on Sheer uh "Am i uh An Idiot?" uh InSannity's radio show today, playing the victim and listening to InSannity whine about how "Journalism died in 2008" and how unfair it all is.

Twenty bucks says inSannity works in Mr. Obama and the mainstream media's lack of vetting.

Won't happen. He fills the right wing douche quota so everybody else can "lean forward".

Not_So_Much

How long til he finds a new home on Fox as a multi-cultural specialist?

An_Outhouse

No. He'll be the residient historian.

Indiepalin

Pat and Bay (of Pigs) Buchanan can do what they do best now: lick out the urinals at this summer's convention in Tampa.

FakaktaSouth

Speaking of gay, black, liberals, they shoulda let Jonathan Capehart (my unwitting gay boyfriend and personal stylist) ambush-fire his Blarney Stone ass on the live tv, give a fabulous speech about the horror that is Pat's "legacy", then kick his dumb ass out the studio. This is probably why they don't let me have my own studio. But I think it sounds killer.

SorosBot

That would be awesome; you should have your own studio for that.

Limeylizzie

You and I both , with the love for Capehart , I am especially fond of his constantly changing pocket handkerchiefs.

I'm OK with that. I mean, if I have to listen to virulent, hate-filled gay bashing, overt racism, unseemly anti-Semitism and general conservative blather, I might as well be able to rub one out whilst watching.

chicken_thief

Why fuck did they even hire the douche? It ain't like he's done some 180 over the past couple of years.

Tundra Grifter

In real life, what has he actually done? Same for Boss "I wasn't wrong, I was misinformed" BlunderRush. And, in reality, Ole Newt.

They are the Paris Hiltons of politics.

SayItWithWookies

He'd been on his way out for a while — but then he picked up loads of cred by garnering so many votes from old Jewish Floridians in the 2000 election. Anyway, the McLaughlin Group should be interesting tonight — he's still on that for now.

I'm not in favor of assaulting politicians. Inevitably, a wingnut is going to throw something "harmless" at a Democrat, and we'll be pissed, but with no high ground if glitter and pies are cool.

GOPCrusher

"Harmless" like a Molotov Cocktail?

40 or 50 % McShineys

"It's essentially free gasoline."

–Megyn Kelly

comrad_darkness

Buchanan is at least crazy in his own special entertaining way. The rest are all crazy like they were stamped at some black helicopter, Alaskan special victim's unit cookie cutter factory.

poncho_pilot

he was into being a bigot before it was cool. it used to be underground.

Texan_Bulldog

Exactly. Kind of like when you have to go out in public with your grandpa; although times have changed, crazy racist grandpa hasn't caught on that it's not okay to use the N word anymore (at least in public).

poncho_pilot

and you have to be like, "no my grandpa was talking about his old school pants."
awkward! no one ever buys that line.

An_Outhouse

I always claim we are on our way to buy nuts. You know, those ones call 'Nigger Toes'.

poncho_pilot

not sure if this is funny, sad, or both because that's what both of my grands called them…i was at least sixteen before i knew what a Brazil nut was.

jus_wonderin

I actually have a sign at my door. Don't enter if you are an individual that uses the N word. Keeps my good ole boy brother at his house.

doloras

Well, at least the sign doesn't say "Dead N-Word Storage".

Terry

Oddly enough, when he was on McLaughlin he seemed like a voice of reason compared to the host.

Yes, Pat had a way of sounding reasonable and intelligent when responding to a topic on that show. It was actually rather surprising to hear all his bigotry and backwards Catholic Conservatism spew out in other contexts, especially when he ran for President. But even in the '80s on McLaughlin, he and Novak were clearly part of the He-Man Israeli Haters Club. When otherwise right-wingnuts go off on an anti-Israel trip, it's usually about anti-semitism, as he has amply demonstrated since then.

GOPCrusher

Or Monica Crowley.

SorosBot

♪ ♫ Hit the road, Pat, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more; hit the road, Pat, and don't you come back no more. ♬ ♭

It was fashionable to hate on Ed because he was superficially supposed to be just a left wing version of the idiots on the right, but his show is actually very good, and definitely an upgrade from Lawrence O'Donnell in the timeslot (and Keith, too).

GOPCrusher

I got banned from Ed's website forum for repeately calling a Tea Bagger a racist scumbag.
Seems that they wanted to have a forum where people of all ideals could come and debate the issues.
You can always expect a well-reasoned argument from someone who has the President of The United States portrayed as the Kool-Aid Man as their avatar.

bagofmice

Oh Yeah!

Wait, I might be missing some racial and class based context, because as a kid in the trailer park… Kool-Aid was awesome sugar-power for our hijinks in the woods.

poncho_pilot

he's actually being replaced with a refurbished t-shirt gun: the Pat Bu-Cannon™. whenever they want Pat's take on an issue they'll turn to the cannon and it will fire Nazi flags and bile all over the studio.

When I first came to San Francisco there was an excellent tailor in the first block of Ellis Street (just across from John's Grill). He was an elderly Jewish gentleman who'd survived WW II making uniforms for German airforce officers.

I'm sure he'll get the votes of all the elderly Jewish Palm Beach residents again.

chicken_thief

Palin/Buchanan 2012!!!

GOPCrusher

Buchanan/Robertson 2012! Pat is where it's at!

Gunner Asch

He can mud-rassle Sarah at the brokered convention.

SoBeach

Once upon a time, long, long ago, yours truly watched Pat give a campaign speech on the steps of the Florida Capitol. I kept a straight face and resisted the urge shout Sieg heil! at his applause lines. And get this, I even shook his hand afterward.

He's a creepy guy who drew a creepy crowd. But hey, it was an entertaining way to kill a lunch hour.

Pat was out of the race shortly after that speech, and some commie from Arkansas went on to win the presidency.

Ah, the good old days.

paris biltong

Wasn't he a speechwriter for Nixon? And can anyone remember anything Nixon said besides "I'm not a crook" (which wasn't even true)?

SorosBot

"I have a secret plan to end the war" and "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" – both also untrue.

Chichikovovich

I've always had a soft spot for "Pat doesn't wear a fur coat, instead she's got a good Republican cloth coat", "when the President does it, that means it isn't against the law", [viewing the great wall of China] "it truly is a great wall", and most especially the two most maudlin displays of self-pity by a moral monster since Macbeth saw Birnham Wood approach Dunsinane: the 1974 resignation speech to his staff, and the glory of human achievement in the field of mawkishness that was the 1962 concession speech, especially the thrilling (if only it were true!): "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore. Because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

I have to run, or I could keep at this all day. Ah, memories….

paris biltong

My admittedly understated point was that Pat's pronouncements as uttered by the men of power whom he has served are eminently forgettable. He was too young to contribute the republican coat and was a Goldwaterite in the early sixties. What may be really fun to think about is how he felt about Kissinger.

I think that's about the nicest thing I could possibly come up with to say about the guy. I hope when he dies, they bury him next to Dick Cheney; that would make the grave-pissing a more convenient one-stop deal.

Terry

I passed him once on the sidewalk in Georgetown. As much as I despise him, I have to admit that he wears a very nice aftershave. That is the only good thing I can say about him.

chicken_thief

Dick Cheney with his robo-heart will never die.

ttommyunger

You must enjoy standing in line.

Nothingisamiss

Shit, I can't believe I didn't get here in time for quivering invective. I'm just full of my own Q.I. and I could really use some more.

Pat, Pat, do you forget that in the beloved FlyOvers the Klan used to burn crosses in the yards of Papists, like yourself, and not just the yards of those with an extra ration of melanin. When I was a kid in Wisconsin, our family had a Catholic neighbor from Nebraska who told us of the joys of his youth.

He was too mild an middle-of-the-road for the New, Tea Party-era conservatives!

jus_wonderin

That is just so depressing.

FakaktaSouth

And shit, he's Catholic. What the fuck is that? Evangelicals can talk straight to God thanks. Oh wait, no, we are all Catholics now? Or maybe just no fucking, or whatever, Irish people just hate the fucking? I don't know – I can't keep up with who to hate anymore. But Pat and his Mick-ish zealotry should piss off. (Being Irish and Pavlovianly-trained not to say anything that might sound dick-southern-type, I love being able to use tacky phrases for my people. It's like a kid saying swears. I wish I knew some more – besides just drunk, ornery, obnoxious, pregnant and whatever else we all are in my family all the time.)

Fare la Volpe

Irish people just hate the fucking

If the size of my dad's family is any indication, the Irish love the fucking.

FakaktaSouth

For reals, MINE TOO (my whole fam, both sides) I wish there was a "Not intended as a factual statement" incredulity font.

prommie

Oh, sure, we love fucking, same as everyone, but come on, we have priorities, it takes so much time, it interferes with the drinking. Thats why the term "Irish foreplay" refers to a purely theoretical concept and not a real thing.

That's why I married a guy of questionable Belgian descent. I get to do all the beating.

bagofmice

I was going to say, if we're going to be doing Irish stereotypes here, it should involve drinking, fooking, and blowing things up. A redneck's redneck… except they get freckles.

Gainsbourg69

My Irish grandfather loved fucking so much that he had nine kids.

HateMachine

I can't speak to anything else you said, but Irish people most certainly do not hate fucking.

SorosBot

It's just the birth control that they hate.

LagunaB

And Oliver Cromwell.
Our hate goes deep and long.
But currently directed at rethugs/women haters.

prommie

Life would be empty, without grudges to hold on to.

GorzoTheMighty

Irish alzheimer's-you forget everything except the grudges

prommie

Its all the Irish in South Carolina that make that place such a shithole. Noone can hate harder than the Irish, noone! My name, BTW, is Padraig.

FakaktaSouth

My dad says it's we Scotch Irish assholes that make the whole south suck. So many settled down here, and we are a bunch of dicks.

prommie

He pretty much nails it, yes.

prommie

The Saint Patrick's Day parade in NYC is the single largest assembly of raging fucking assholes on the face of the planet, baying drunken shitheads, every one of them, worse even then an Auburn crowd, that Bama fan who teabagged the unconscious drunk, thats fucking nothing, these people live for mayhem, limbs and appendages, biting. Watch out when you fight a Mick, they fucking bite. Mike Tyson is probably part Mick.

FakaktaSouth

And because I am an arbitrary shamrock shagger, this description here only makes me want to experience the St Patrick's Day parade all the more.
Alabamians teabagging LSUers in a Krystal's is some kind of metaphor – I just don't know exactly how to capture the beauty yet.

prommie

Oh, thats the best strategy to maximize drinking time and keep the courting time to a minimum, random hookups in the alley behind the dumpster! A real man doesn't put down his beer, same as playing softball.

A kid in one of my classes once described St. Patties day as "an angry Mardi Gras".

SorosBot

In Philly at least you also get a lot of drunks who still will start raging against the English and claiming it was perfectly OK for terrorists to kill them. And they're mostly like third or fourth generation. Grr. I normally try to avoid going out on March 17.

prommie

Have you ever hung out around any currently English-type peoples? The Irish are regarded as animals.

Oh, cool! Next time some asshole bitches about something an African-American did, we'll just blame it on unwanted, rape-borne Scotch-Irish genes.

FakaktaSouth

I get words stuck in my head the way I do songs. I have been walking around saying Padraig for 2 fucking hours now. I gotta go outside or something. (we was Brennan)

SorosBot

Well here's what Pat's old boss Dick had to say about the Irish: "The Irish have certain – for example, the Irish can't drink. What you always have to remember with the Irish is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I've known gets mean when he drinks. Particularly the real Irish. "

FakaktaSouth

That's because we are mean to begin with – it's the whole, making your personality more-so with liquor – Irish folks need not do this.
ALso, I LOVE how any time ANY "kind" of person is mentioned, there could also be a "what racist thing did Nixon say about them" footnote. And I don't even know what Nixon was to ridicule him, besides a paranoid megalomaniac.

SorosBot

The Nixon tapes are the gift that keeps on giving, when it comes to both the cursing and the bigotry.

HistoriCat

I don't even know what Nixon was to ridicule him

Well, I don't know what he was ethnically but he was raised a Quaker. If you take that along with the fact that two of the last three Democratic presidents have been Southern Baptist, I think some bizarre inverse religion rule must apply. We need to elect a Scientologist if we want a liberal president.

Fare la Volpe

Hey now, I get really cuddly when I drink.

Of course I first have to go outside and smash a couple of bottles against a dumpster to "work things out," but afterwards I'm all sunshine and smiles!

prommie

As to this new coalition of the Fundie prods and the opus dei wing of the Catholics, that confuses me too. They are suppose to hate catholics, what with the 'works" thing (its a euphemism for giving charity, and charity goes against the protestant "let the lazy starve" work ethic), and then there is the fucking Pope! But it seems that the historical divide between fundies and catholics has been bridged by the emergence of the new anti-vatican II fundie catholics, and by the discovery of their shared love of fetuses and barefoot, pregnant, and subjegated women,

Ruhe

It's like there is this ladder of conservative intellectual rigor (not automatically an oxymoron) with Buckley once at the top and each guy at every rung all the way down is looking at the guys below and thinking "Jesus, I'm with these idiots?" And now with the Tea Party they don't tolerate anything above "ground level" intellect. It's a herd mentality and they like to choose their leaders by the way they smell.

Stone free, to do as he please
Stone free, to shoot the breeze
Yeah, Pat can't stay, got to got to bash the gays

LiveToServeYa

So, it's the Microsoft No Buchanan Channel? Good news!

Steverino247

It's time for Pat to retire. Seriously. The guy's been at this since Nixon so hate him or love him, it's time for him to draw a nice warm bath, open some veins and enjoy a good wine while he fades to black.

But he did say he wants the Repubican to win because Obama is "the most divisive president we've ever had." More divisive than Buchanan (James) is a remarkable accomplishment of historical ignorance. (Although you could argue Lincoln was literally the most divisive as his election triggered Southern secession.)

GOPCrusher

Megadeth still sucks.

not that Dewey

No disputing that.

SorosBot

Fired despite having the highest ratings on MSNBC for daring to oppose the invasion of Iraq. And that's the supposed liberal news network.

gullywompr

Yeah, that's great and all, but can you really applaud a network that has Krystal Ball as one of their regular commentators?

It's good to know that MSNBC is filling the gaping void in their programming by broadcasting Whitney Houston's funeral live.

But it's sad that we won't have the opportunity hear Pat's Catholic jehadi views on the birth control issue.

SayItWithWookies

Don't worry Pat — old racists never die — they just cling to the vine whilst everything they hold dear is repudiated and replaced with fresh, vibrant multicultural new growth. Probably sucks worse than death sometimes, too.

There was a real blacklist in the United States led by HUAC that destroyed careers and ruined lives of a lot of creative people who were guilty of nothing more than exercising constitutionally guaranteed rights. To conflate this with Buchanan's employer finally telling him that he is costing them money and harming their brand is disgusting and cowardly.

Darlin', you've been gone for so long I feared you'd taken another grrl to Ecuador. Then I clicked on your name to see when you posted last. That's quite a creation! Kaia's not the only one who brings the blingee.

Best post on Pat's web site after Pat gave his bigoted rant telling his followers why he was fired, came from this guy.

Reverend Mik McAllister, on February 16th, 2012 at 6:20 pm Said:

"That homosexual acts are unnatural and immoral has been doctrine in the Catholic Church for 2,000 years." <— Buchanon statement

1. The Catholic church has not existed for 2000 years.
2. Homosexuality was not considered against doctrine until roughly the 13th century. (Paul’s epistles are political tracts meant to prejudice people against the Romans, who – gasp – allowed same sex relations)
3. Virtually every species has examples of homosexuality. How can it be unnatural?
4. Immoral means "violating one’s moral code" – not violating someone else’s moral code. Your moral code in no way governs anyone else’s unless they choose to adopt the same code.

I can find no redeeming value in you being allowed a pulpit to trumpet your hate and intolerance on MSNBC. You are not an expert on Christianity (proven by your quotes of Leviticus, among others). You are simply a hateful man who delights in leading others to pain and suffering. I hope you find your rightful place in history, with the likes of Jim Baker, Jimmy Swagger, Fred Phelps, and other self-aggrandizing con artists.

And yes, that is my real name, and I am indeed a minister. I speak for no one but myself. I was called to help others, regardless of the color of their skin, the gender of their loving spouse, the amount of money in their wallet, the building they worship in, or the medical procedures they needed or had in the past. That is a minister.

Should you ever be given a second chance, I have no faith that you will rise to the occasion. Because ministering to those in need, for you, is unimportant when compared to the chance to fill your pockets with cash and to fill the faces of those around you with hate and fear.

You may maintain that your God will forgive you. God’s forgiveness may be infinite, but His gullibility is not. Asking forgiveness without any intention of changing your ways is nor repentance, it’s lying.

It always amazes me how those who preach hate and intolerance feel that it is appropriate to pray to God with the same mouth.

Are you creating hairs to split? According to Apple's (New Oxford) Dictionary: Immoral means "not conforming to accepted standards of morality." Merriam Webster: "conflicting with generally or traditionally held moral principles."

HamsterSandwich

The comment was Mik McAllister's, not mine. However, other than that split hair, I agree with most of it.

Intelligent conservatives like Buchanan who could clearly articulate and defend their loathsome viewpoints and are willing to actually engage with their opponents have now been almost completely excluded from the national media by reflexive, automated outrage on the left. In their absence, we've been left with petty pundits like Michael Steele, his counterpart Lawrence O'Donnell and all their disingenuous ilk . Truly this is a victory for the forces of justice, etc.

GOPCrusher

I will give Pat credit for one thing. Shortly after the President's election and the Republiklans started getting more shouty and ragey, he did try to distance himself from the modern Republiklan Party.
But he was still an racist asshole.

rickmaci

Bad timing for Buchanan. He was an intolerant, racist, homophobic, misogynistic Republican bigot too far before his time.

fuflans

i think as a matter of principle we should fire anyone who advised a president EIGHT PRESIDENTS ago.

Of all the invectives being tossed around here related to Pat, no one's directly discussed his massive ego. Surely someone who worked for the administration that sent the most felons to prison in my lifetime should have a little humility. The term unindicted co-conspirator was tailor-made for Pat. (And maybe his buddy Joe Scarborough, too.)

ttommyunger

Small victories are somehow not satisfying. Now, if he were videotaped having his 'nads nailed to a stump, then being pushed over backwards?